Tim Keller spoke recently at the multi-faith Service of Remembrance and Peace for 9/11 Victims' Families held at Ground Zero. His talk, though brief, set forward the Christian hope. He did not preach the gospel, but what he did speak was radiant with godly light.

He concluded with this quote from the Brothers Karamazov:

I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, of the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they’ve shed; and it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify what has happened.

— Dostoyevsky, Brothers Karamazov.